Chicken Lal Mirch
A traditional Indian chicken lal mirch with paprika, leaf, green cardamom pods. Cooked from scratch with authentic spices.
Ingredients
- 2 - 3 red chillies (about 20 gm)
- 1 tspn paprika
- 2 x 1 x 1 cm ginger (about 4 gm) (prepared weight)
- ΒΌ heaped tspn turmeric
- 100 gm onion (prepared weight)
- 2 tbspn oil
- 2 cloves garlic (about 10 gm)
- 1 bay leaf
- 3 tbspn chopped tomato
- 2 green cardamom pods
- 1/8 - ΒΌ tspn cumin seeds
- 1 chicken breast
- ΒΌ heaped tspn coriander seeds
- ΒΌ tspn salt
- ΒΌ tspn ground cinnamon
Method
- 1
Cut the chicken breast into 3 or 4 pieces.
- 2
Deseed (or leave seeds in if you like the heat) and roughly chop the chillies.
- 3
Roughly chop the ginger.
- 4
Roughly chop the onion.
- 5
Roughly chop the garlic.
- 6
Blend the chillies, ginger, onion, garlic, tomato, cumin seeds, coriander seeds, cinnamon and paprika to a smooth paste.
- 7
Mix the turmeric into the paste (it would discolour the blender) and set aside.